Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
“One of our goals has been to postpone as many cases we can until the vaccine is available and use that as your means for getting 50% to 70% of the population protected.”
He seems pessimistic that a vaccine will eradicate the virus, and it may take multiple vaccines if the virus mutates, but I read the above quote as saying that their goal is delay the spread until a vaccine can protect at least some significant portion of the population. Measles has been around for centuries, but we are not all going to get it.
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Got it. I misread him. I thought he was suggesting that it would mutate enough that ultimately everyone would wind up getting some form of it.
I think a huge unknown unknown in regard to the virus is mutation. While it can mutate to become more lethal, it can also mutate to become less so, or both at once in different locations. If a less lethal mutation occurs and it spreads widely enough, it could provide a "poor man's vaccine" against later infection with a more virulent strain, no?
